Women screamed, children were reft away from their mothers, panting men trampled over bags and bundles torn from their owners' hands, and George and the elderly Canadian struggled determinedly to prevent the girl's being badly crushed.

Edgar had disappeared, though they once heard his voice, raised in angry protest.
They were forced close up to the outlet, when there was a check.

More officials had been summoned; somebody had dropped a heavy box which obstructed the passage, and a group of passengers began a savage fight for its recovery.

George seized a man who was jostling the girl and thrust him backward; but the next moment he was struck by somebody, and he saw nothing of his companions when, after being violently driven to and fro, he reached the gate.

A woman with two screaming children clinging to her appeared beside him, and he held a man so that she might pass.